Collaboration
GE’s Colab Brings Good Things to the Company
GE’s internal social network, GE Colab, is connecting up the firm’s 115,000 employees around the globe.
Technology Innovation
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Location Analytics: Bringing Geography Back
Remember geography lessons in school, painstakingly memorizing the longest rivers, cultures of various regions, the state capitals?
Innovation Strategy
Is There a Tweaker Driving Innovation On Your Team?
Innovation often comes from tweakers who take existing ideas and turn them into something better.
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Manager’s Guide to IT Innovation Waves
Executives must decide which IT innovation “waves” to catch — and which ones to let roll by.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Winning the Race With Ever-Smarter Machines
To gain leverage from ever-improving technologies, companies need new processes and business models.
Executing Strategy
Why Dominant Companies Are Vulnerable
When consumers feel that their choices are restricted, many respond by leaving the market leader.
Innovation Strategy
How to Network Your Way to New Product Ideas
What if traditional views of the innovation process are flawed? Thoughts from MIT’s Eric von Hippel.
Innovation Strategy
Five Steps for Embracing Consumer Innovation
Companies can work with consumer innovators, or “casual entrepreneurs,” by understanding their lead users.
Climate Change
Innovating in Uncertain Markets: 10 Lessons for Green Technologies
Lessons from the successes and failures of many emerging technologies offer a helpful guide in how adoption works.
Customers
McAfee: ‘Customer Service in the Digital Age: The Eternal Lament’
Why are companies still using snail mail to deliver information that customers need in real time?
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Surprising Impact of Fashions in Information Technology
Large companies that invest in trendy IT innovations may see their reputations — and CEO compensation — increase the next year.
IT Governance & Leadership
The 4 Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation
The rising data flood and emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation gets done.
Innovation Strategy
Innovation Isn’t ‘Creativity,’ It’s a Discipline You Manage
Esther Baldwin of Intel explains how IT tools, applied to the innovation process, can fuel business growth.